Officials with the California Department of Social Services in January 'raided' a San Diego preschool over its failure to enforce the state's mask mandate, the school says.
According to the CDSS letter, which Wu shared with Fox News Digital, officials with the agency’s Community Care Licensing Division entered the three preschool locations on Jan. 19, separated the children from their teachers and interviewed them privately about their masking practices.
"Every family we heard from after the inspections were furious about the interviews," Wu told Fox News Digital."We were open the whole pandemic about not masking children and the reasons why. The policy was on our website. Put simply, the mask guidance says children can NOT mask when eating and sleeping. In full day child care that’s 3 hours, so masking at other times offers no health benefit. All the families supported the policy.
"We believe in good faith that the agency doesn’t have jurisdiction to enforce another agency’s mask guidance," he said."They could have issued us a citation in 5 minutes and let us take our challenge up through the proper channels. The simultaneous multi-school raids and the child interviews just felt like a power play."